Advanced light trapping designs for high efficiency thin film silicon solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 119, Issue , 2013, Pages 219-227

  Feltrin, Andrea ^a   Meguro, Tomomi ^a   Van Assche, Elisabeth ^a   Suezaki, Takashi ^a   Ichikawa, Mitsuru ^a   Kuchiyama, Takashi ^a   Adachi, Daisuke ^a   Inaki, Osamu ^a   Yoshikawa, Kunta ^a   Koizumi, Gensuke ^a   Uzu, Hisashi ^a   Ueda, Hiroaki ^a   Uto, Toshihiko ^a   Fujimoto, Takahisa ^a   Irie, Toru ^a   Hayakawa, Hironori ^a   Nakanishi, Naoaki ^a   Yoshimi, Masashi ^a   Yamamoto, Kenji ^a  

^a KANEKA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intermediate reflector; Light trapping; Multijunctions; Patterned substrates; Plasmonics; Thin film silicon

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE REFLECTORS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MULTI-JUNCTIONS; PATTERNED SUBSTRATES; PLASMONICS; THIN FILM SILICON;

COMPOSITE FILMS; DESIGN; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PLASMONS; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84884910076     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.07.012     Document Type: Article

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